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Margaret Chon is the Donald & Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice, and formerly Associate Dean for Research at Seattle University School of Law. She is the author of numerous articles, books, book chapters, and review essays on intellectual property, as well as race and law. Her recent co-edited volume, THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GOVERNANCE, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Cambridge University Press 2018), focuses on the relationship of global intellectual property institutions to the production of global public goods, expressed by human and sustainable development goals. An alumna of the University of Michigan (M.H.S.A. and J.D.) and Cornell University (A.B.), she clerked for both the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham and the Honorable Dolores J. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Chon has been a member of the faculty at Seattle University since 1996. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation.

Publications

FORTHCOMING SCHOLARSHIP

Certification and Collective Marks in the U.S., in CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE TRADEMARK LAW (Jane Ginsburg and Irene Calboli, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019)

Intellectual Property and the Development Divide, 27 Cardozo Law Review 2821 (April 2006)

Walking While Muslim, 68 Law and Contemporary Problems 215 (Spring 2005), with Donna E. Arzt (to be republished in ISLAMAPHOBIA AND THE LAW (Khaled Beydoun and Cyra Akila Choudhury, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming))

Copyright and Capability for Education: An Approach from Below in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE SCENARIOS (Tzen Wong, Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors, and Graham Dutfield, eds.,2011, Cambridge University Press)

A Rough Guide to Global Intellectual Property Pluralism in WORKING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Rochelle Dreyfuss, Harry First and Diane Zimmerman, eds., 2010, Oxford University Press)

A Substantive Equality Principle Within Global Copyright, in QUESTIONS ON COPYRIGHT (Faculdade de Direitos de Campos [Brazil], ed.) (2009)

When Bias Compounds: Insuring Justice for Women of Color in the Courts, for the Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice and Minority and Justice Commissions (with Marilyn Berger, adapted from curriculum distributed by the National Center for State Courts) (Summer 2000)

Reasons for Reasoning About Sex, The Eyes of Justice (proceedings of the Seventh Round Table on Law and Semiotics, Center for Semiotic Research in Law, Government and Economics at Penn State, R. Kevelson, ed., 1993)